Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.